Or maybe for travel, where the headset will translate everything you see and hear instantly.
If you've encountered Mr. Lewis's playing, stressing instrumental prowess seems natural; if you haven't, dip into an album like Anthony Braxton's "Quartet (Dortmund) 1976," and you will hear instantly why Mr. Lewis is revered among avant-garde jazz aficionados.
Only this century have we perfected the tools and the gear to hear and see instantly the tremors and tragedies that befall us each week and every hour.
When I asked Ibrahim what was the first music he ever heard, he instantly replied "my heart".
You heard it instantly in "North Star Boogaloo," a sly, lively conflation of slave-era lore and basketball heroism that Mr. Lewis wrote for Mr. Schick in 1996.
Asking if you are being heard clearly instantly endears you to the audience and it's something to ease you into speaking (Liz Sheffield, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester).
That extraordinarily powerful resonance seems to have permeated discussions of the music too; reviewing a London performance in 1963, the music critic of The Times claimed that "practically everyone who has heard it instantly acknowledged it to be a masterpiece".
"On a later visit to Bahrain their leader, whose name I have sadly forgotten, came to dinner at the crew hotel and gave me a recording that they had made and which included the aforesaid March, interspersed with my in-flight announcements". As a teenager in London, Trish Dainton would often stop in her tracks and look up to the sky when hearing that instantly recognisable sound.
I think it's great that someone in the middle of shithouse Alaska could make a record, put it on the internet, and have people hear it instantly.
When Adan meets a political candidate at his agency, his offhand remark — "Can you hear me now?" — instantly becomes the basis of the candidate's ad campaign.
